rich w
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02:17:11 pm on January 9, 2009 | # |
“FROM THE BBC:
An atheist campaign claiming “There’s probably no God” has been reported to the advertising regulator.
Posters with the slogan appear on 800 buses in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as on the London Underground.
But organisation Christian Voice has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority saying they break rules on substantiation and truthfulness. The British Humanist Association, which backed the campaign, said it was not taking the complaint seriously.
The adverts contain the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” and (interestingly) they set out with an ambition to raise £5K via http://www.justgiving.com/atheistbus but rapidly raised over £140K.
More interesting still is the premis that if God exists it is a cause of worry that would destract from life’s joy. For me, it is a pertinant challenge to the Christian faith and one worth thinking about. It echoes what a lot of people I know say about faith – maybe it’s time we admitted that the Jesus message of abundant life isn’t getting through to normal people.
Completely uninteresting is the complaint.
Petty.
But completely uninteresting.
rich w 3:39 pm on 16 January, 2009 | # |
another interesting development in the saga: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7832647.stm
(i love the bbc by the way)
Steve Waterman 1:22 pm on 15 February, 2009 | # |
I just blogged about this too… http://15mins.wordpress.com
Aparently the campaign was a response to a Christian group (http://jesussaid.org) that had advertisments on the underground promising that unbelievers would “be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all eternity in torment in hell.”